Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Townhomes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to one of the most awe-inspiring buildings in Minnesota. It’s big. It’s...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The End of the Line in Currie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Cobden
The Church of the Holy Cross
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Little Falls Depot
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Sandstone
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion School In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
State Theater In Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Enter Marlon Brando
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Duluth Homestead Project
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Almelund Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Ottawa
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Red Wing Iron Works
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...

